Main area: Mental Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 1 fixed term for 1 year and 1 permanent full term position
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (required to cover day and night shifts - day shifts 7am to 7.30pm - night shifts 7pm to 7.30am)
Job ref: 246-GYW6719105
Employer: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Julian Hospital, Hammerton Court
Town: Norwich
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 gross per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 08:00
Charge Nurse
Band 6
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles; please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
We’re looking for aspiring leaders and clinically credible nurses to join our dedicated team in Norfolk as a Charge Nurse on Reed Ward!
This role is a great opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills and progress your nursing career. Reed ward is a 13 bedded female organic admission ward that provides care for those with an organic mental health presentation.
We are looking for a registered nurse with great clinical expertise and ready to move from staff nurse to charge nurse! While experience in working with acute later life adults would make you perfectly suited to this role, we welcome individuals from clinical backgrounds with experience in other areas of mental health. Candidates should be well motivated, have good interpersonal skills, personal resilience, and enthusiasm for working with acutely unwell adults and their families.
We also offer great training opportunities to support staff development.
Main duties of the job
As Charge Nurse, you will be expected to take responsibility for supporting your care team, working within governance processes to support the implementation of individualized and responsive care.
You will work collaboratively with the Clinical Team Leader and Clinical Nurse Specialist to ensure effective management of the ward in all respects, including environmental, financial, and clinical aspects.
This post requires full PMA fitness (full training will be given) and the ability to work shifts including nights and weekends over a 7-day period.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who enjoy sharing experiences and learning from each other. We are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations and are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work.
Benefits included with this role are:
* Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
* Career progression
* Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* Staff physiotherapy service
* NHS discounts and many more
Person specification
Qualifications
* Nursing degree or equivalent
Experience
* At least two years post-basic experience, one year at Senior Staff Nurse
* Management/Leadership of junior staff
Skills
* Ability to display calm, mature responses to difficult situations
* Ability to work regularly unsupervised
* Good verbal and written skills
* Good observation and reporting skills
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to motivate others
* Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
* Basic computer skills including use of email and internet
* Ability to travel
* Ability to supervise others
Knowledge
* Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
* Awareness of security and its impact
* Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1983
Other
* Flexibility and adaptability
* Enthusiastic and well-motivated
* Able to work as part of a close team
* Aware and understanding of equality and diversity issues
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: The Trust recognizes and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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